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• Reference: 2023/4492
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

On 23 November 2023, Ofgem announced that from January 2024 the energy price cap will rise by 5%. Given that 471,000 households in London are already living in fuel poverty, what impact do you anticipate this energy price cap rise will have on Londoners?

• Reference: 2023/4503
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

A key recommendation which emerged from the Green Skills event I hosted with BusinessLDN on 7 November 2023 was the need for the GLA to play a convening role, bringing together businesses and education providers. Please can you provide an update on what progress is being made in this area?

• Reference: 2023/4504
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

A key recommendation which emerged from the Green Skills event I hosted with BusinessLDN on 7 November 2023 was the importance of the GLA playing a role in consolidating and sharing best practice approaches on how to upskill workers for the green economy. Please can you provide an update on what progress is being made in this area?

• Reference: 2023/4505
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

A key recommendation which emerged from the Green Skills event I hosted with BusinessLDN on 7 November 2023 was the need for research to be undertaken to map green skills that will be required to support the transition into a green economy in London. What role are you, or will you, play in mapping this need?

• Reference: 2023/4506
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

Do you collect data on employment 6-months after participation in the Mayor’s Skills Academies Programme? If yes, please could you provide data on employment status and sector for those who have participated in the green skills hubs for participants in Q4 21/22, Q1 22/23, Q2 22/23, Q3 22/23 and Q4 22/23?

• Reference: 2023/4507
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 21 December 2023

During a recent event I hosted at City Hall, praise was given to your green skills academy programme. Could you please provide an update on how this programme is supporting Londoners to transition to a green economy?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 14 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you, Mr Mayor. I just wanted to focus on this issue about fairness. I wondered if you thought that encouraging employers to pay the London Living Wage, would you say that is fair to try to increase the National Minimum Wage to the London Living Wage, and yet there is someone present in this room who said, “This would be the most damaging to the lowest skilled and lowest paid whose skills and value to the employers do not meet the London Living Wage”?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 07 September 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I would like to start with a question to Deputy Mayor Tom Copley, if I may. Hi, Tom. Last year, the Mayor said as the Chair of the C40 Cities Group, “One of my priorities is taking urgent action to address the causes and devastating human cost of forced migration created by the climate emergency”. I wondered if you could outline what actions overall the Mayor has taken in London since then?

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 22 June 2023

Léonie Cooper AM: Thank you, Chair. Obviously, our condolences to Assembly Member Bailey on his loss that has prevented him from coming here this morning, but the issues that relate to the video footage and also the invitation that was sent out, talking about jingling and mingling, when mingling was specifically something we were asked not to do, overrides that. There are some really important principles relating to the Nolan Principles of Public Life and showing a better standard of upholding the law amongst people who have been elected. On that basis, I hear what you say about the peerage...

• Reference: 2023/1953
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 18 May 2023

There is a massive STEM skills shortfall that is damaging our economy. What more are you doing to help young and old Londoners to gain skills and reskill for the jobs of the future?